Boyce v. Boyce’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 78 Ill. App. 3d 653 - In Re Marriage of Hunt · Deering v. Deering · 84 Wis. 2d 124 - Bloomer v. Bloomer · Liles v. Liles
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. In a proceeding for dissolution ... the court shall set apart to each spouse his non-marital property and shall divide the marital property.... 2.“marital property” means all property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage except: (1) Property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent; (2) Property acquired in exchange for property acquired prior to the marriage or in exchange for property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent; (3) Property acquired by a spouse after a decree of legal separation; (4) Property excluded by valid written agreement of the parties; and (5)The increase in value of property acquired prior to the marriage or pursuant to subdivisions (1) to (4) of this subsection, unless marital assets including labor, have contributed to such increases and then only to the extent of such contributions. 3. All property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage and prior to a decree of legal separation or dissolution of marriage is presumed to be marital property regardless of whether title is held individually or by the spouses in some form of coowner-ship_ The presumption of marital property is overcome by a showing that the property was acquired by a method listed in subsection 2 of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mistler v. Mistler
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.